How tall was Monty (2 Viewers)

[cement shoes]

I just recieved the Montgomery and Churchill figures, and Monty is alot smaller than all my other K&C figures. Was he a very small man or is K&C off on the scale?

 

[Louis Badolato]

He was a very small man mentally, but I can't vouch for his physical size.

 

[jazzeum]

Totally uncalled for comment. I'm reading a book about Alamein while on vacation and although other (including Louis) have asserted that in Africa he just took some other's person's plan and made it his own, the author, a noted British forces lecturer, notes this is not the case. More later.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Brad, are we going to get into another discussion about Monty? Can't we just agree to disagree? Like many Americans, I hate him and think he is an incompetent, snobbish, underachieving idiot. Like many people from the commonwealth countries, you think he was a hero. Lets just let it lie. He was dead before I was born, and probably before you were born too, so it really doesn't matter.

 

[Njja]

I read somewhere Monty was 4' 11 with lifts in his shoes. Or was that standing next to Patton. I'm not sure.
Njja

 

[cement shoes]

Im just asking a simple question. Maybe me should start a thread for people who want to argue!!

 

[jazzeum]

Louis,

We can agree to disagree and I would never say that the man wasn't vain and pompous and that he didn't have his faults but I also think that at least in Africa, he should get some credit for helping to beat the Germans. I just don't think it does credit to say that he was a small men mentally. I don't think men like CIGS Alan Brooke would have put his confidence in him if he didn't think Monty was up to the job.